Elliot Grandin came off the bench to earn Blackpool a point, scoring one and ­setting up veteran Kevin ­Phillips for the equaliser as struggling Ipswich threw away a two-goal lead.

Paul Jewell’s side ­appeared to have done enough to end their five-game winless streak after Angel Martinez’s own-goal and Tommy Smith’s second-half strike.

But Grandin brought the visitors back into the match, scoring their first just three minutes after he had been brought on, and setting up Phillips for his eighth goal of the season to ensure they left Suffolk with a point.

Phillips, 38, then missed a glorious chance to win it, but Ipswich held on.

“I’m really sick we haven’t won the match,” said ­Ipswich boss Paul Jewell.

“We were the best team right up to when they scored... but when they DID score the doubts set in.

“In the end, we could have lost it. At the moment, we just can’t get over the line.”

Ipswich made a dream start when Angel sliced Lee Martin’s left-wing cross into his own net, under ­pressure from Jason Scotland.

Smith then headed their second on the hour-mark, after Andy Drury chipped in a cross following great work by Jay Emmanuel-Thomas.

But the jitters set in when Grandin followed up from close range after Alex ­McCarthy saved Phillips’ header.

And Blackpool equalised when Grandin released Phillips, allowing the ­veteran to burst forward and slot a low shot home.

Seasiders’ manager Ian Holloway said: “When your younger players are off the boil, you need your older ones to come on and show their class.”

Holloway hailed ­homesick Frenchman Grandin, and added: “He’s split up with his wife and his little boy’s over there [in France]. He wants to go home, but a move hasn’t worked out and he came to me today and said he was more than ­happy to keep playing for me.

“It’s really difficult for him and I’ve got the utmost respect for him.”